Senator wants review of OC Arts school

07-13-2010

By Scott Martindale/Orange County Register

A state senator is calling on the officials who oversee Orange County's largest public charter school to consider revoking its operating license, after a popular journalism and yearbook teacher who stood up for her students' free-speech rights was abruptly let go last month. Konnie Krislock, who has been teaching journalism and yearbook at the Orange County High School of the Arts in Santa Ana for the past four years, was dismissed in June via a curt letter from the school that read, in part, "Your services are no longer needed." State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, says Krislock was essentially fired for defending her students' rights to publish a factual news story last fall that school administrators found unflattering. (more...)

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